On Tue, February 23, 2010 8:38 pm, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> Yan Seiner wrote:
>> On Tue, February 23, 2010 4:57 pm, Larry Finger wrote:
>>> What I do know is that the BCM4318 does work with WPA/WPA2, although my
>>> device
>>> is Cardbus format in an old laptop. Using Broadcom's proprietary
>>> firmware,
>>> as
>>> you seem to be doing, the encryption/decryption is done in the
>>> hardware.
>>
>> The issues seems to be with the version of wireless utils in the latest
>> openwrt snapshot.  Sure looked like a driver issue,though.
>>
>>> I'm a little confused on your usage of the device. As an AP, I see no
>>> need
>>> to
>>> scan. Are you using it as a station, or as a wireless bridge? In these
>>> modes,
>>> would not the bridging code to eth0 get in the way?
>>
>> I am using it in STA mode.
>>
>> I set up a separate network for the wireless and do not use bridging.  I
>> have to "wan" ports in effect - one for the wireless and one for wired.
>> I
>> don't use the wired port.
>>
>> It works quite well (or did, until I tried the b43 drivers at which
>> point
>> I also got the broken version of iwconfig/iwlist.)
>>
>> --Yan
>>
> Hi,
>
> Someone reports that the station mode is not working for him in OpenWRT
> with ath9k driver after the last update of compat-wireless in OpenWRT.
> It was reported in https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/6712 probably this is
> not an issue in the ath9k/b43 driver but in some other part of OpenWRT.
>
> Please try if it helps using an older version of compat-wireless or
> using an older version of the hostapd/wpa-supplicant combination. (Just
> go back some revisions in the svn for that directories)

Yes, that is the conclusion I came to.  I opened a ticket earlier today.

https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/6732

I'll attach it to the other ticket.


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